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August 4, 2020

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# Storefront API checkout throttle

Shopify will now limit the amount of checkouts that can be created on the Storefront per minute. If an API client exceeds this throttle, then a 200 Throttled error response is returned.

For more information, see [API rate limits](https://shopify.dev/concepts/about-apis/rate-limits).